Mrs. Forbes, our librarian, has been running Scholastic Book Fairs for over 20 years! This year she decided to enter the NATIONAL Contest that Scholastic hosts. Entrants have to prove that they hosted their “Best Book Fair Ever”!
Mrs. Forbes formed a team of parents and pulled out all the stops to have a Monster themed, Monsterriffic Fair! Goals were set for money earned, books sold and reading minutes and for the “ All For Books” donation collection. ALL our goals were surpassed! There were 3,023 books sold, and over $15,000 in sales which included, $1,400 collected in our “Feed the Monster Campaign”. Our percentage earned allowed us to purchase over $5,000 in new books for our library!!!

Mrs. Forbes put a video together with the help of former Vintage teacher, Mr. Bullis, and submitted it along with a 100 page portfolio documenting our fair with a story, statistics, and photos.

​Vintage is the proud winner of second place in the NATION! We will receive a $1,000 prize to spend on Scholastic books and products! Many thanks to all the Vintage Community who shopped at our fair or worked at our fair. And thank you again to the dedicated team of parents who donated hours of their time and money from their pockets to help Mrs. Forbes.

Heidy Reyes, Lorena Hernandez, Tammie Larson, Nancy Alderete, Gayane Goffman, Laura Godoy, Violeta Alarcon, Lizette Castro, Cindy Valles, Linda Carlin, Suzie Vicuna, Carol Mena, Sandra Kenig, Audra Murillo, Kim Potter, Marcie Delgado, Alba Meza, Susan Castillo.

Click here to see more photos from this monster event.

Sunday, April 17, 3-5 PM - bring the family and friends out to the Menchie's Frozen Yogurt on 17840 Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills and met up with children's author, Adam T. Newman to celebrate his newest book release, "The Girl Who Lost Her Voice."  There will be a book signing, face painting, Hollywood photobooth, and lots of good fun.  Additionally, Vintage will get 20% of your Menchie's purchase so remember to tell them you are from Vintage Magnet.  
Click here for a flyer.

Thursday, March 31, 2016 parents are invited to a Science Fair workshop where they can ask questions and receive suggestions on how to help their students with their science fair project.  The workshop will start at 6PM and be held in the Science Lab.

Don't forget that Vintage Magnet's website has some suggested links for science fair projects.  Click here to open that page.

Friday, March 11th's PTA Auction was a success.  Many of Vintage's families and friends ventured out on a damp, winter night to help support PTA's fundraising efforts.  Even better, many opened their pocketbooks and made generous bids on the many fine items that were being auctioned.  An impressive gallery of classroom art was available at the silent auction.  The auditorium soon filled up awaiting the auction to begin for the baskets that lined the long tables.  The lovely baskets, wrapped by our PTA, were filled with many themed goodies put together by each classroom.  In addition, there were teacher and staff events and mysterious boxes filled with hundred of dollars worth of gift cards and tickets to bid on.

 A special presentation of a check for $500 was given to Vintage's 5th grade to go towards science camp by The Crunchy Crab.  Thank you to all the family and friends who ate there during our fundraising night. 

In all, it was a lovely family event.  The thunderstorm passed through in enough time to dry out the ground so that the dance performance could take place.  Food was catered by Outback to those in need of some dinner.  Click here to check out photos from that evening.

Vintage has thought carefully about what areas to spend money on that would make our school a better experience for our students.  Sometimes the money raised goes towards something not very exciting such as copier maintenance.  Other times. it goes towards fun field trips for the students.  Here are some other areas in need of funding: yard supervision, library support and our librarian, computer lab equipment and our computer lab assistant, science lab supplies and science lab aide, a teacher appreciation day luncheon, and various other school needs. At other times there have been large projects,  air conditioning the school, and planting trees and grass around campus. Some projects require repeating such as such as upgrading the computer lab technology and upgrading the school science lab equipment and experiment supplies.  Overall, without funding by our parents these items and more would disappear from our school. So, thank you to our Vintage Community for your generosity!

It is that time of year again! Science Fair time!  The science fair project is mandatory for grades 3, 4, and 5, and optional for students in grades K, 1, and 2. Bellow is the list of important dates for the Science Fair. Please use these dates to plan out a timeline for your project.

Remember to fill out the proposal form and return it to your teacher by April 1, 2016.
 
Below are links to important documents that you can print out in order to complete your project. These important documents can be found on our Downloadable Documents - Science Fair page.  You will find general information such the timeline for the science fair, entry form, criteria and rubrics as well as specific type of project guidelines that you will need in order to successfully complete the project.

DO NOT MISS THIS VIDEO PREVIEW OF ALL THE SCIENCE FAIR EXCITEMENT COMING OUR WAY!

Come out and enjoy a family meal at Chuck E. Cheese located at 16269 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills on Wednesday, from 3 to 9PM.  Not only will you have a fun time, you will be helping PTA support our school in funding supplies and various programs that make our school special.  Chuck E. Cheese will donate 15% of all event sales.  Sales include all food, merchandise, and token deals purchased at the register.  Just notify the cashier that you're participating in your school's Fundraising Night.

Click here to download the flyer  in English (Includes special deal coupons).
Click here to download the flyer  in Spanish (Includes special deal coupons).

Thank YOU!

March 11th, Vintage Magnet PTA invites you to their annual auction.  This year's fun theme is "Grooving to the 70's!" Bring the whole family to this much anticipated event!  Dust off your flare jeans, tie-dye shirts and fringe vests and come  bid on the amazing themed baskets.  Take part in the "Live Auction" and come home with a basket OR two!

Check out just two of these wonderful, goody-packed baskets that you can bid on and win. 

Save the date:
WHEN:  Friday evening: March 11th, 2016
TIME: 5:30 - 8:00 PM
WHERE: Vintage Magnet Auditorium
FOOD: Outback Catering will have food available for purchase.
ATTIRE:  Optional: Have fun - come dressed in your groovy fashions from the 70's
PAYMENT TYPES: Cash, checks, credit cards

Keep checking back here for more information.  We look forward to having you join in and support this worthwhile event.
-Vintage Magnet PTA

On February 27th, two Odyssey of the Mind teams from Vintage traveled to San Marino High School in the San Gabriel Valley to compete for the first time at the LA Basin Regional Tournament.  There they presented their Antarctica Fins, Fur, Feather and Friends skit meeting five pages of specifications.  A second group presented a Pirates skit involving building structures with  balsa wood and had to satisfy eight pages of specifications.

Odyssey of the Mind is a creative problem solving competition for students of all ages and abilities.  Teams of between 5 to 7 students choose one of 5 problems, create a solution to it, then present their solution in a competition against other teams in the same problem and age division. 

There are many guidelines and requirements that must be followed.  Teams spend weeks, or months, creating solutions to their long-term problems.  Students must come up with all of the ideas for their solution and do all of the work themselves.  The teams are given a budget that they must not exceed, and a time limit of 8 minutes to present their solution.  In addition to the long-term problem, teams are given a spontaneous problem from the judges that the team must solve.  They have just a couple of minutes to think about it, then solve it together.  Judges place a lot of emphasis on innovative and creative ideas, expressive acting, original, student created scripts, songs, and dances,  unique use of common materials, teamwork, and sportsmanship.  This is a valuable experience for the students in that they are totally responsible for their own learning and solutions, all while they learn to really listen to each other, cooperate, and work towards a common goal.

Thank you to everyone that participated in Read Across America.  Students had a blast letting their silly, fun side shine reflecting the silly, fun writings of Dr. Seuss.  Our librarian, Mrs. Forbes, made a cute slide show to share a few of her favorite photos from that week.  For more photos, click here. 

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